Word: antifascist
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...Valenzuela's staff car was carried out by members of ETA, the Basque separatist organization responsible for most of the political terrorism in Spain. ETA confirmed it had carried out the attack. The other two incidents were suspected to mark the re-emergence of the October 1 Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO), a mysterious organization described by the authorities as ultraleftist, that has surfaced sporadically in recent years. In the gun battle that followed González de Suso's assassination, police wounded and captured Emilio Gomez Gomez, 28, allegedly a member of GRAPO. One of the two assailants...
...Communist Palmiro Togliatti, founded the postwar Italian Republic; of a heart attack; in Rome. At 20, the silver-tongued Nenni was jailed for protesting Italy's invasion of Libya; his cell mate was Benito Mussolini, then a fellow Socialist. When il Duce came to power, Nenni, an ardent antiFascist, fled to France and later joined the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. After World War II he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Italy's first postwar government. His alliance with the Communist Party and his opposition to NATO earned him the Stalin peace...
DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine...
...version, Alvin Sargent's adaptation and Fred Zinnemann's direction usually retain Hellman's balance. At times, however, the women's deep friendship becomes cloying, subtly but soppily suggesting an adolescent lesbian relationship, an implication Hellman worked to avoid. And in the movie Hellman-and-Julia's admittedly courageous antifascist actions are presented as historically unequalled acts of heroism...
Redgrave is on the screen less frequently than Fonda but her appearances are memorable. She sensitively captures Julia's evolution from a headstrong stylish socialist to a committed antifascist who sacrifices her life not on impulse but after careful consideration. Hellman's character is relatively more static, and when she risks her life by smuggling funds for Julia's group into Germany-- Hellman is Jewish--we are never sure whether she is acting out of political commitment, love for Julia, or simply because she was afraid to display cowardice by refusing her friend's plea. In fact, if the details...